13 Weeks - A Nutter Butter

Here's my weekly update. The little peanut got to experience it's first plane ride this weekend!!! Which went well. And got to enjoy the weekend in Buffalo & Erie getting to see lots of family!

I've read a couple different things - that your 2nd trimester starts on the 13th week...and have also read that your 2nd trimester starts at the end of the 13th week. Come the end of this week I think I can officially say that I'm into my 2nd trimester. Man, where does time go? I'm sure I'll be saying that same thing when I'm 9 months and huge, and ready to have the baby....

And I finally told my boss at work yesterday. It went just fine. I was pretty nervous before telling him, my heart was pounding...but it went just fine. I almost kind of think they were already aware of it. But it's nice now I don't have to keep it a big secret anymore.

How your baby's growing:
Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (the size of a medium shrimp) and weighs nearly an ounce.

The sockets for all twenty teeth are formed in the gums, and vocal cords are beginning to form.

Your Baby
Your baby can make a fist and even suck his or her thumb this week—both skills that are über-cute during infancy ... and not so much at the age of 9. If you're really lucky, you might catch a glimpse of baby's thumb sucking on an ultrasound photo. That's a framer! Other exciting developments include:

Your baby's eyelids are fused shut to protect his eyes as they develop. His bones and skull are solidifying and soon itsy-bitsy ribs may appear. (Baby ribs! How cute is that?!) Baby's intestines are finally right where you want them—in his or her belly instead of poking out into the umbilical cord. Baby's tooth sockets are all loaded and ready to pop out baby teeth six or seven months after baby is born (causing baby a lot of pain and you a lot of lost sleep).

Who's that singing? Elton John? Could be your baby: His vocal cords and larynx are completed now.

Your baby-to-be now weighs about 20 grams and is nearly 3 inches long, or about the size of a Nutter Butter, covered in chocolate. OK, it doesn't have to be covered in chocolate, but isn't everything better that way?